Tag: Liver disease
Appeals court upholds rationing of hepatitis C treatment
CINCINNATI — The Kentucky Department of Corrections can deny a life-saving but expensive hepatitis C medication to inmates, a federal appeals court ruled in...
UK infected blood probe focuses on school where dozens died
LONDON — A public inquiry into Britain’s contaminated blood scandal, which led to the deaths of more than 2,000 people in the 1970s and...
Indiana county hit by HIV outbreak could end needle exchange
INDIANAPOLIS — A rural southern Indiana county that was the epicenter of the state’s worst-ever HIV outbreak driven by intravenous drug use is poised...
US enacts ‘Real Water’ recall amid reports of death, illness
LAS VEGAS — Federal authorities have ordered a complete recall of Las Vegas-based bottled water brand Real Water and ordered the company to surrender...
High court won’t hear Tennessee prisoners’ hepatitis C case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is leaving in place an appeals court decision that upheld Tennessee’s rationing of life-saving hepatitis C drugs to prisoners...
High court won’t hear Tennessee prisoners’ hepatitis C case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is leaving in place an appeals court decision that upheld Tennessee’s rationing of life-saving hepatitis C drugs to prisoners...
A city wrestled down an addiction crisis. Then came COVID-19
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. — Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe...
Lawsuits mount for Nevada-based Real Water, amid FDA probe
LAS VEGAS — Lawsuits are mounting against a Las Vegas-based bottled water brand, Real Water, amid a U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation and...
Warning issued not to drink Vegas-based ‘Real Water’ product
LAS VEGAS — Federal and local health officials are warning people not to drink a Las Vegas-based bottled water brand, Real Water, after linking...
